Welcome to The Kite Runner home page!
Here you will find a variety of pages that delve deeper into specific areas of Khaled Hosseini's novel.
Learn the basics of "kite running"; find a list of the principal characters and links to analyses of those individual; understand the social, political, and cultural differences between Sunni and Shi'a as well as between Pashtun and Hazara; and much more....
All of these pages were created in order to give the reader a more fulfilling experience from reading, understanding, and analyzing all of the many components that fuse to form this unforgettable story.
Here you will find a variety of pages that delve deeper into specific areas of Khaled Hosseini's novel.
Learn the basics of "kite running"; find a list of the principal characters and links to analyses of those individual; understand the social, political, and cultural differences between Sunni and Shi'a as well as between Pashtun and Hazara; and much more....
All of these pages were created in order to give the reader a more fulfilling experience from reading, understanding, and analyzing all of the many components that fuse to form this unforgettable story.
Synopsis of the Kite Runner
Kite Fighting
Farsi Words in the Kite Runner
Religious Differences between Shias and Sunnis
Kite Runner Character List
Build Your Own Kite
Maps
Political Background
Sherjangi: The Battle of the Poems
Hazara People
The Kite Runner v. Afghan History